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I know that for many of you, Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman " is considered to you to be one of the greatest graphic novels in your collection. I know that for me, Gaiman's "Sandman" series is some of the greatest work of fiction I have personally ever read. You can only imagine how excited I was when I heard

 

that he wanted to team up with DC comics to release a 20th anniversary special edition which would have consisted of a brand new tale based on the series and it's characters. Unfortunately, the prospect of seeing this come to life seems somewhat slim. In an interview with Jam! Showbiz , Neil talks about why the deal for a new Sandman book fell through.

"I wanted to do a 20th anniversary story and it broke mostly because DC Comics would have loved me to do a 20th anniversary story at the same terms that were agreed upon in 1987 when I was a 26-year-old unknown,...And my thought was, 'You know what guys, it really doesn't work like that.' I wasn't going to do a deal at the same terms we had in 1987 and they were not willing to do any better than that."

This is somewhat sad news for Sandman fans, I am sure. Fear not, though! In the same interview, Gaiman talks about Sandman coming to the big screen!

"I think it's probably some kid, who right now is around 26-years-old," he said. "He may or may not have directed his first movie, but he loves Sandman and he has the same amount of dedication to the material that (director) Peter Jackson had to Lord of the Rings and Sam Rami had to Spider-Man. It's somebody who knows that there's this thing they love and they have a responsibility to the world get it right and not f--- it up.

What do you guys think about all of this? Are you disappointed about the fact that there may not be a new Sandman story? Are you looking forward to the possiblity of a Sandman film adaptation?